Archives for January 2011

Terri at Wheat Among Tares offers some thoughtful reflection on and interaction with Francis Collins’ book The Language of God. BioLogos continues to address concerns some Christians have regarding their stance on science. The Dispersal of Darwin shares a number of articles on Darwin and evolution. (Image on the right HT Jerry Coyne) [Read more…]

Two items related to peer review and electronic means of communication showed up on blogs today. First, via Inside Higher Ed, a piece in Nature entitled “Trial by Twitter” on how electronic publication, blogging and Twitter are leading to scholarly publications getting discussed much more quickly and intensely than was previously typical in some disciplines. And [Read More…]

It is too soon to try to reboot LOST, but not at all soon to reboot the LOST conference that was originally going to be held in Hawaii, but which proved too inconvenient a destination for too many people. The conference has now been rescheduled and relocated. It will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana [Read More…]

Steve Caruso, part of the team working on the Mandaean Book of John translation project, has also been doing other interesting things related to Aramaic, including providing lines for Darius in Civilization V and translating Peter Rabbit into Galilean Aramaic. Anyone interested in Aramaic should keep an eye on his blog – and not only [Read More…]

Daniel McClellan has started blogging through James Dunn’s recent book, Did The First Christians Worship Jesus? [Read more…]

The blog address Debunking Creationism appears to have changed hands – and has witnessed some interesting recent posts, including one on the Biblical texts assuming that the earth is flat, and another on the scientific meaning of “theory” in such phrases as “the theory of evolution.” In related news, Jim Kidder links to a CFSI [Read More…]

In 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Paul addresses issues related to the communal means the Christians in Corinth were practicing. In the process, in 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Paul cites the following famous material: For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, [Read More…]

Last night’s episode of Fringe provided more evidence that Fringe is exploring some of the same themes as LOST. Whether it will do so in more satisfying ways remains to be seen. In this episode, “The Firefly,” the observers are back and playing a prominent role, apparently working on “course correcting” a universe tottering out of [Read More…]

Doug Mangum shares BAR and ASOR archaeology scholarships. And The Talmud Blog shares a call for papers for a conference entitled “Emerging Normativities: Examining the Formation of Proto-Orthodox Christianities and Rabbinic Judaisms 200-800 CE.” [Read more…]

Mark Goodacre has drawn attention to the diappearance of Religion Online, a very useful site with a collection of articles and even complete books related to religion, including Biblical studies. If the site has gone defunct, that is truly a loss for the internet and its users. There are older backups at the Internet Archive, as [Read More…]